Excel Business Start-Up 5/6th May

We have spent the last two days at the Business Start-up exhibition. We spoke with hundreds of people over two days and generally enjoyed the event. We were pleased to have been asked to deliver a seminar on Public Speaking and that event went very well apart from one problem. We filled all the seats. We filled all the standing area at the back and sides, and still over a third of those who were queuing did not get in. I am sorry for those people, and at the same time honoured that so many people took time out to come and learn how they can improve their public speaking. Every seminar is a learning event for the speaker. My original plan A had to be modified as there was a lot of outside noise which restricted me to the two static microphones. The lighting made the audience hard to see past the first few rows, and timing of pauses after funny comments had to be judged visually rather than audibly. There are two ways of looking at these issues. The first is the half empty, panic-struck thinking that nags you into believing it is all going wrong, and the other is the half full, this is fun and I know I can rise to the challenge thinking that makes life so interesting. Of course in reality the audience never knew that I changed my structure and words to suit the environment as they only ever heard one version of my speech! I am a firm believer in the power of positive thinking - try it for yourself. Meanwhile, those who were there and want to know more, please pop across to http://www.businesstrainingdirect.co.uk where you can read about our courses, ask for information and join our newsletter.